RIDESHARING IN GREAT BRITAIN: PERFORMANCE AND IMPACT OF THE YORKSHARE SCHEMES

Four organised car sharing schemes (the Yorkshare schemes) were established and monitored in West Yorkshire between 1979 and 1981. Three of the schemes were based on employment sites and one on a residential suburb. Differences in site characteristic and in procedures allowed conclusions to be drawn as to the determinants of scheme performance and impact on the transport system. The proportion of the target population participating in new car sharing arrangements as a result of the Yorkshare promotion varied from 2% to less than 0.5%. Impacts on car use for the work journey were minor and the main result was an abstraction of public detailed analysis of costs and benefits and includes comments on the proper role of ridesharing promotion within transport policy. (A) (TRRL)

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• Authors:
  • Bonsall, P
  • Spencer, A
  • Tang, W-S
• Publication Date: 1983-5

Media Info

• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 169-181
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
  • Volume: 17A
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0965-8564
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09658564

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobiles; Benefit cost analysis; Car pooling (Railroads); Carpools; Employers; Level of service; Public transit; Residential areas; Ridesharing; Work trips
• Uncontrolled Terms: Use
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• ITRD Terms: 1243: Car; 1119: Car pooling; 226: Cost benefit analysis; 621: Journey to work; 653: Level of service; 744: Public transport; 8119: United Kingdom; 9084: Use
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00378600
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-035 352
• Files: HSL, ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 30 1984 12:00AM